An Anthropologist Looks at Biology Export

@article{citeulike:2997048, abstract = {This article sets out the foundations for an adequate integration of anthropology within the wider field of biology. In the discourse of social anthropology, the concept of 'biology' is commonly matched to one side of an opposition between humanity and nature, setting up persons and organisms as mutually exclusive objects of study. In biology itself, however, the established neo-Darwinian synthesis virtually eliminates the organism as a real entity, and the extension of this paradigm to incorporate 'cultural inheritance' likewise eliminates the person. An alternative biology is proposed that takes the organism as its starting point, and that comprehends the social life of persons as an aspect of organic life in general. Thus and anthropology of persons is encompassed within a biology of organisms whose focus is on processes rather than events, replacing the 'population thinking' of Darwinian evolutionary biology with a logic of relationships.}, author = {Ingold, Tim}, citeulike-article-id = {2997048}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2804561}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2804561}, doi = {10.2307/2804561}, issn = {00251496}, journal = {Man}, keywords = {affordance, anatomy, anthropology, biology, culturalenvironment, enaction, evolution, sensemaking, socialcognition}, number = {2}, pages = {208--229}, posted-at = {2008-07-13 12:03:12}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland}, series = {New Series}, title = {An Anthropologist Looks at Biology}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2804561}, volume = {25}, year = {1990} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2997048 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2997048 N2 - This article sets out the foundations for an adequate integration of anthropology within the wider field of biology. In the discourse of social anthropology, the concept of 'biology' is commonly matched to one side of an opposition between humanity and nature, setting up persons and organisms as mutually exclusive objects of study. In biology itself, however, the established neo-Darwinian synthesis virtually eliminates the organism as a real entity, and the extension of this paradigm to incorporate 'cultural inheritance' likewise eliminates the person. An alternative biology is proposed that takes the organism as its starting point, and that comprehends the social life of persons as an aspect of organic life in general. Thus and anthropology of persons is encompassed within a biology of organisms whose focus is on processes rather than events, replacing the 'population thinking' of Darwinian evolutionary biology with a logic of relationships. IS - 2 JF - Man SE - New Series SN - 00251496 EP - 229 TI - An Anthropologist Looks at Biology PB - Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland VL - 25 SP - 208 KW - affordance KW - anatomy KW - anthropology KW - biology KW - culturalenvironment KW - enaction KW - evolution KW - sensemaking KW - socialcognition AU - Ingold, Tim PY - 1990/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2804561 ER -